From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S269236AbUHZSbx (ORCPT ); Thu, 26 Aug 2004 14:31:53 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S269316AbUHZSaK (ORCPT ); Thu, 26 Aug 2004 14:30:10 -0400 Received: from mx1.nersc.gov ([128.55.6.21]:10672 "EHLO mx1.nersc.gov") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S269292AbUHZSZe (ORCPT ); Thu, 26 Aug 2004 14:25:34 -0400 Message-ID: <412E2B0D.2010906@lbl.gov> Date: Thu, 26 Aug 2004 11:25:17 -0700 From: Thomas Davis User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040608 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Jurriaan Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: 2.6.9-rc1-mm1 References: <20040826014745.225d7a2c.akpm@osdl.org> <412DC47B.4000704@kolivas.org> <20040826142812.GA4092@middle.of.nowhere> In-Reply-To: <20040826142812.GA4092@middle.of.nowhere> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.85.0.0 X-Enigmail-Supports: pgp-inline, pgp-mime Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Jurriaan wrote: > From: Con Kolivas > Date: Thu, Aug 26, 2004 at 09:07:39PM +1000 > >>Andrew Morton wrote: >> >>>ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.9-rc1/2.6.9-rc1-mm1/ >>> >>>- nicksched is still here. There has been very little feedback, except >>>that >>> it seems to slow some workloads on NUMA. >> >>The only feedback on nickshed was that it hurt NUMA >>somewhat, SMT interactivity was broken (an easy enough oversight) > > > I take it that was why changing consoles between mutt and slrn would > include a pause of several seconds on a system with a single, > hyperthreaded cpu? > More than likely. I had found it's worse with X running (see ioperm vs. iopl thread) > Is that fixed in 2.6.9-rc1-mm1? > Good question, and how about the ioperm/iopl bit map problem? thomas